| General Features | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Version |
1.1 |
2.1.3 |
4.21 |
2.0.7 |
Release Date |
2006-12-28 |
2008-11-20 |
2008-08-21 |
2007-01-15 |
Author |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al |
Olivier Meunier |
Six Apart |
WordPress Development Team |
URL |
www.s9y.org |
dotclear.org |
www.movabletype.org |
wordpress.org |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
BSD |
GPL v2 |
GPL |
GPL |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
$0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Interface Languages |
English, German, Danish, French and many more |
6 |
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch |
46 |
Multi-User Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Multi-Site Deployment |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
| System Requirements | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP 5 |
Perl 5 |
PHP |
Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Unix/Linux, Windows |
Platform Independant |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Webserver |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS) |
Apache, Lighthttpd |
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver |
Anything with PHP |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite) |
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| Datastorage | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Text Files |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
MySQL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Oracle |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
SQLite |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
MS SQL Server |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Other |
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL |
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LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license |
 None |
| Anti-Spam | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Akismet Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Word Blacklist |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
IP Ban List |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
CAPTCHA |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks, |
Trackback validation |
Numerous plugins provide complete solution |
various other plugins |
| User Access Features | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
ACL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Audit Log |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
LDAP Authentication |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 No |
Other Authentication |
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Extendable authentication API |
Pluggable |
 None |
| Support | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Online Help |
www.s9y.org |
dotclear.org |
www.sixapart.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
Issue Tracker |
sourceforge.net |
dev.dotclear.org |
bugs.movabletype.org |
trac.wordpress.org |
Books |
 None |
1 |
2-5 |
5+ |
Support Forum |
board.s9y.org |
dotclear.net |
forums.movabletype.org |
wordpress.org |
Mailing List |
lists.sourceforge.net |
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mtos-dev@sixapart.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
IRC-Channel |
www.s9y.org |
#dotclear on freenode |
#movabletype @ freenode.net |
codex.wordpress.org |
| Blogging Features | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Categorization |
Multiple |
Single |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Tags |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trackback |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Pingback |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Receive |
Send+Receive |
Ping Service Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Link- / Blogroll |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Protected Posts |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Blog by Email |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Blog by SMS/MMS |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
Blog API |
MovableType, Blogger |
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger |
XML-RPC and Atom |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
| Post Editing | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Multi-paged posts |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Spell Checker |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Undo |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Asset Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Emoticon Images |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
| Comment Features | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Comment Layout |
Threaded |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Feeds for Comments |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
E-Mail on Followup |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Gravatars |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Open-ID Support |
 None |
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Client + Server |
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| Extended Features | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Photo Gallery |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Polls / Surveys |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom Pages |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Google Sitemap |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
| Workflow | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Content Approval |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Versioning |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Article Publishing |
scheduled |
scheduled |
scheduled |
simple |
Comment Moderation Queue |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Interoperability | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Content Import |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ... |
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR |
from 22 other blog systems |
Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export |
|
 Yes |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WebDAV Support |
 No |
 No |
 No |
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HTML Output |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Administration | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trash |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Web Statistics |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syndication | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
RSS 0.9x |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS 1.0 |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
ATOM 1.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Serendipity  | DotClear  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  |
Podcast Feeds |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
ID3-Tag Editor |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
YouTube Support |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
Media Converter |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
| Last updated | 2007-01-18 | 2008-12-01 | 2008-10-11 | 2007-03-01 |
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